School of the Arts Open Research
Seminar Series
The Art of
Loitering: the politics of reportage drawing
Jill Gibbon, artist
11 am Friday 18th May 2012
Edward Barnsley Building Room 63.1.07
All welcome
Jill Gibbon
is a radical reportage artist. She worked as a reportage illustrator in the1990s drawing for the BMJ, the Guardian and the Independent. Following the Iraq
war, frustrated with claims of objectivity in reportage, she began to reverse
its forms. She currently reverses the usual focus of war art on the war zone,
by drawing political aspects of war at home such as the arms trade. Her work
has been exhibited in the UK and the US, and is in the permanent collection of
the Imperial War Museum. She has a B.A in Illustration from Leeds Polytechnic,
an M.A in Visual Arts from Keele University, and a PhD in drawing from
Wimbledon School of Art.
